My path as an analyst has been shaped by three enduring influences: Jungian psychology, Sufism, and the feminine. These threads weave through both my life and my practice, continually opening new ways of seeing, being and working.
I was born in Iran, raised in a Zoroastrian-Muslim family, moving easily between Zoroastrian temple and mosque. This early interfaith experience gave me a natural curiosity about the diversity of culture and spirit. When my family left Iran in the 90s, I built a life in the Netherlands, carrying both the memory of my homeland and the work I would later do in the West.
Dreams were my first teachers. As a young adult they spoke in symbols and wisdom riddles I could not yet understand, but I felt their importance. Encountering Jung’s writings gave me a language for what I had already intuited as a young adult: that the unconscious carries its own wisdom. This discovery led me eventually into Jungian analysis and, later, into my own analytic training.
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My professional journey has always been rooted in a work of synthesis, I never belonged fully to one specialism or tradition, but to the spaces that can be woven between. My professional life began in Public International Law and many years of entrepreneurship, but life redirected me toward psychology in my late twenties. I have been in almost one decade of Jungian training. I trained first at the Jung Academie in Amsterdam, then the NAAP (which discontinued its first cohort of trainees) to finally find myself at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich as a Diploma Candidate. What initially was a practical decision to receive my IAAP certification became a second home. Alongside this clinical training, I completed a Research MA at the University of Amsterdam in the history of esotericism, where I focused on Islamic, Persian, and Western esoteric traditions, and on the intersections of practical alchemy and Jungian psychology.
In my private practice I work with adults through psychoanalysis, dreamwork, and Sandplay. I speak and conduct analysis in Dutch, English or Persian. My approach is relational, rooted in the psychoanalytical tradition, and attentive to both psyche and body. I have a particular interest in feminine consciousness—within women and men alike—as a way of cultivating embodiment, fluidity, and a deeper connection to soul.
The writings of Dr. Donald Kalsched have been a quiet but profound influence on my way of working, especially his understanding of trauma and the protective forces of psyche or what he calls the “archetypal defenses of the self”. His insights have helped shape how I hold imagination in relation to our humanity, and how I listen to both the wounded and the life-giving aspects of the archetypal world.
My grounding in Sufism also allows me to welcome the mystical and spiritual dimensions of psyche, which are so often overlooked in modern therapy. In my practice these dimensions are held in a grounded way, alongside the practical realities of everyday living, so that transformation can take root in the whole of one’s life.
